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Poetic Devices ⭐✅ Flashcards

1
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What is the mnuemonic you can use to help you analyse poetry?

A

SMILE
Structure
Message
Imagery
Language
Emotion

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2
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What is a rhyming couplet?

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two consecutive lines that rhyme

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3
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What is caesura?

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Punctuation in the middle of a line/ stanza/ sentece

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4
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What is a proper noun?

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A person/ name

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5
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What is a concrete noun?

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Anything you can engage with using the 5 senses

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6
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What is an abstract noun?

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Anything you cannot engage with using the 5 senses

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7
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What is a conjuntion?

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A word that connects two sentences

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8
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What is onomatopeia?

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A word that sounds like what it is e.g. boom/ bang/ woosh

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9
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What is a plosive alliteration?

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An alliteration using the 4 plosive constonants, b, p, g & k - words that cause air to be completely blocked by mouth movements

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10
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What is assonance?

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Repition of vowel sounds

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11
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What is sibilance?

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Alliteration using ‘s’ sounds

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12
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What is a sonnet?

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A poem with a controlled rhyme scheme ending with a rhyming couplet that is 14 lines - sounds like heartbeat, generic love poem

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13
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What is enjambment?

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When a sentence goes over multiple lines of poetry

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14
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What is a hyperbole?

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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15
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What is a denotation?

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The literal meaning of a word

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16
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What is a connotation?

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A word with multiple/ double meaning

17
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What is an oxymoron?

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Placing two opposite words together/ words that juxtapose eachother e.g. warm ice

18
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What is an imperative?

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The word at a beginning of a sentence to make it an instruction

19
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What is a modal verb?

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A degree of certainty e.g. must, should, could

20
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What is a 3 line stanza called?

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Tercet

21
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What is a 4 line stanza called?

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Quatrain

22
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What is a 5 line stanza called?

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Quintet

23
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What is a 2 line stanza called?

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Couplet

24
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What is a 6 line stanza called?

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Sestet

25
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What is a 7 line stanza called?

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Septet

26
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What is a 8 line stanza called?

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Octave

27
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What is an end stop?

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When a sentece ends at the end of a line

28
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What is a poems structure if it has no rhyme scheme or strucutre?

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Free verse

29
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What is a poems structure if it has no rhyme scheme but does have a strucutre?

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Blank verse

30
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What is anaphora?

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When multiple lines/ sentences start with the same word/ phrase

31
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What is an ode?

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A formal, ceremonious lyric poem that celebrates a person, event, thing or idea

32
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What is an elegy?

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A mourning/ death poem - a celebration of someones life

33
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What is a ballad?

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A narative song, steady rhyme strucure, telling a story

34
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What is an epic?

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A poem that tells a historic/ mythical event

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